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CONSTABLE LEONARDDEFENDS FAIR NAMEOF MA YBROOK TO WNAbove are shown three of tho pi aces at Maybrook that wore raided by County Detective William H. Moore and.his assistants on Tnursdav night. 7Times-Press InformantFails to State theFacts, He SaysARRESTS MADE INNUMEROUS CASES'Gambling Bound to Happen in |; Any Railroad Town, HeAssertsHarr?' Leonard, constable, of May-brook, takes oxooptlons to certain statements mndo In tho TimoM-Prosslast weok In connection with tho raidof alleged gambling pluoos In May.brook. In I to account of tho mid theTlmos-Prose quoted ono of the menback of tho mo rent cut to clean upplaces of 111 roputo in this section and tho coimtnhlo has written a lottor to tho Newburgh Journal oricicibing tho Times-l*ro*i.s for coating roll actions on tho fair numo of Mayhrnok. “Such articles,” tho constable says, are ovidently exaggerated to ghe the impression to the imbllo that May brook Is no lit community to live In, whereat?. If the farts of ouch of tho foiegolng cases worn printed, the public In general would not ho prejudiced againet a fairly good commun Ity and outside of a llttlo gambling (which Is bound to happen In nay railroad town) Muybjook today fs one of tho'bcstr towns of Its aiVo In thla or any other State.”.Ono of the stntomotilR tho constable objects to was that during tho past two years numerous crimes Imvo been commUtorl for whloh no nrrostft bavo boon made.Now to clto one of tho erlmes wo will take for Instance fho McKooIcy murder for which six nrmsts wore mado by me—four men and two women, snjs Mr. Leonard.Tho next rnRc—tlmt of a imm being Binbbed, taken io St. Luke’s Hospital and died. The facta tiro that tho man was stabbed, taken to St. Luke's, ono Itnlinn arrested, and held for the grand 1ury. The victim did not die find loft the hospital after two wcoks.The cane of a man djlng i« n notorious saloon—I would stato that f attended tho coroner's Imfrcat and tho verdict was that death occurred by falling down Btalrs, striking- his head against a radiator.• Another crime cited Is that of aL.-yenr-oId girl outrnged boro. Thiscrlmo did not occur In May brook, but near Bunifildo in the town of Hampton burgh, N. Y,In tlm mattor of a citizen belnn hold up on Main utract, no undi enso was over reported to tho local author-ltlOfl.
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Middletown Daily Times Press
Middletown, New York, US
Mon, Feb 01, 1915
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